Traceability in viewpoint merging: a model management perspective

  • Authors:
  • Mehrdad Sabetzadeh;Steve Easterbrook

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • TEFSE '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Viewpoint merging is one of the core activities in viewpoints-based development. We may consolidate a set of viewpoints to unify different stakeholders' perspectives, to explore interactions between different parts of a problem, or to perform various types of analysis. Once viewpoints are merged, it is important to be able to determine how the merged viewpoint represents each viewpoint, and to track the assumptions involved in the merge. Building on the viewpoint merging framework in our earlier work [22], this paper proposes a systematic way to generate and represent the traceability information required for tracing the merged viewpoint elements back to their originating viewpoints, and to the merge assumptions related to the elements.